Signing Ha Ha Lee bought Haase some time with me. Landing a good point guard in the next couple of months would help even more.

HOWEVER, I gotta point out:

Haase will be the first UAB men's basketball head coach to not get his team into the NCAA or NIT tournaments by his second season.

Haase set the dubious record of five conference home losses in a season. Murry has the title for worst overall conference record at 6-10 but his schedule was much tougher.

The team was much better in November than it was in February. There needs to be a positive correlation between performance and the time spent with the staff. Of all our seniors that were here for both Haase years, did any of them get better? It troubles me that they didn't and each seemed to end their careers struggling.

Haase has made some big strides in recruiting for UAB and for now that is enough. He is going to have to show he can develop players season to season or that talent will underachieve.